Improvement in stove-pipe thimbles



'1. SHUMAN. STOVE-PIPE THIMBLES.

No. 193,560. Patented July 24,1877.

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PATENT QFFICE.

THOMAS SHUMAN, OF GORNING, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

January To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS SHUMAN, of Corning, in the county of Adams and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Pipe Thimble-s; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exactdescription thereof, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification..

The same letters and figures of reference are used to indicate the corresponding parts.

After describing the invention, its nature and extent will be shown in the claim.

Figure l is a side view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken through the dotted line a; y, and looking upward from the bottom. Fig. 3 is a side interior view when my thimble is vertically bisected. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view taken through the dotted line a; y, and looking downward from the top.

A is an annular disk, forming the front or outside of my thimble. a a are lugs near the outer circumference of the disk; and b b are lugs near the inner circumference of the disk. B is the inner disk of my thimble, provided with the projections d d on its inner. periphery and the lugs c c. G is a short cylinder,

STOVE-PIPE THIMBLES.

193.560, dated July 24, 1877; application filed 15, 1877.

made of tin or other suitable material, to either end of which the disks A and B are attached. h h are small holes in the disks A and B, into which holes the wires 6 e are fastened, and thus forming my thimble complete. The lugs b b and c 0 form projections into the interior of the cylinder 0, and thus keep it firmly in place. The lugs a a are embedded in the plastering, keeping the thimble rigidly in place.

The projections 01 d embrace the stove-pipe as it enters the thimble, leaving the intervening space for the exit of the air heated by the pipe. A

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a stove pipe thimble the disks A and B, in combination with the cylinder 0, the disk A being provided with the lugs a a and b b and holes h h, and the disk B being provided with the projections 01 d and the lugs c c and the holes h h and the wires 0 c, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of March, 187 6.

THOMAS SH UMAN.

Witnesses:

F. M. BUoKLEs, W. B. ROBERTS. 

